Well, this weekend I discovered the source of what looks to be most of my problems with HTPC software. Basically I had stopped a lot of 'unused' services from running on my system. I had a feeling it was something like that as I had a lot of problems with grabbing channels and schedules. So...I did a reinstall of XP and surprise! All of a sudden WinTV began to work. Now I don't know which services are required but I'm currently trying to find out. My guess is that a lot of my problems with Sage & Media Portal will now go away. Incidently, I also had problems with BeyondTV. I updated the TV card drivers and suddenly Beyond lost the remote. I ran the setup again and got the remote back but it decided to wipe the channel listing and then refused to get it back. As always, the adventure continues.....
Steve On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Bino Gopal <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah just wanted to add that XBMC is now available for PC and great, and > that Boxee is supposed to be the next version of it and all my friends are > snapping up invites like it's going out-of-style, and say they love it! > > BINO > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mesdaq, Ali > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 10:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] HTPC - Which Software? > > Not sure if your looking for something like this but XBMC (http://xbmc.org/) > seems to be the best software on the market from what I hear and its open > source and free and cross platform. Rare that a open source project is the > best but it seems like it is. Boxee.tv is completely based on XBMC source > and they are getting a lot of attention lately. > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------ > Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM) > Sr. Security Researcher > Websense Security Labs > http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com > ------------------------------------------ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:00 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] HTPC - Which Software? > > What's vmc? I was going by the recomendations in this thread, I don't > think that came up. Meedio was also recommended but I pretty much > stopped when I got something that actually worked. > > Steve > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> So, if I can ask... What's wrong with vmc? >> >> ------Original Message------ >> From: Bobby Heid >> Sender: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> ReplyTo: [email protected] >> Sent: Jan 4, 2009 12:49 PM >> Subject: Re: [H] HTPC - Which Software? >> >> It is about $100 retail. >> >> Bobby >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight >> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 1:44 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [H] HTPC - Which Software? >> >> >>>Beyond TV: Installed easily. Virtually no setup. Uses Hauppauge >>>Remote. Image quality is fine. Uh, huh? But where's the >>>problems???? >> >> Beyond TV isn't cheap though is it? >> >> >> >> >>>Working for about a day now with no issues. I think you can guess my >>>recommendation.....;-) >>> >>>Steve >> >> >> >> >> Sent via BlackBerry >> > > > Protected by Websense Hosted Email Security -- www.websense.com > >
